didn't you separate your boot partition from / ? --> root (hd1,5) this indicates your BOOT partition (/boot) is located at /dev/hdb6
--> kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 this indicates your ROOT partition ( your / ) locates at /dev/hda6, is is possible? On 12/26/06, Bruce Burden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from "hda0,x" to "hda1,x", and attempted to boot Gentoo in single user mode, by appending a 1 to the GRUB string. That seemed to work, but eventually the process fails with the: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6) message above. Googling about tells me that perhaps the SCSI or the USB subsystems may not be loaded, and that is why the boot process fails. One recommendation was the change the /dev/hdaX notation for the device numerical notation, ie root=0x802. Now, I have not (quickly) found the numerical notation, although I did encounter it once upon a time previously. Does this seem like the correct approach? If so, what would be the correct notation for the second drive? As I recall, 0x800 was a SCSI notation? My GRUB is: default 0 timeout 8 splashimage=(hd1,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 root (hd1,5) kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 title Windows root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe -- Gentoo Linux 2.6.12 kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=nor mal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd and all I have really done is change hd1,X, where originally I had hda0,X... I would also like to be able to boot into windoze, and currently all it does is return to the GRUB menu, so clearly something isn't right... Thank you, Bruce -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX. - Thuganlitha The Power and the Prophet Robert Don Hughes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list